No, I get it. I was trying to be funny but couldn’t think of any actually good wordplay to joke about being lowbrow. Here, in apology for the quality of my vocabulary, I’ll offer a counter:
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are given a challenge: open a can without a can opener.
The engineer throws the can against a hard surface over and over again until it breaks.
The physicist does some calculations, puts pressure on a few points on the can, and finds satisfaction when the can promptly pops open.
The mathematician is later found staring at the can, muttering "assume the can is open … "
(I looked this up to make sure I remembered the details … It’s surprising how many methods the engineer and physicist are proclaimed to have used, while the punchline is always basically the same.)
By contradiction he proved the can cannot be open and is therefore closed. This is easy. This means the room they’re in is open (the compliment). If we close that up the can should open.
Most of the folks here can barely handle multiples of 10, let alone 8 or 12.
I think the proportion of math literate people on Lemmy is higher than it is in many places.
Here’s a lowbrow math joke you can fallback to if the first one goes over their heads:
Q: How did the mathematician relieve his constipation?
A: He worked it out with a pencil!
My brow has never been more furrowed than after reading this.
Not furrowed in confusion, I hope?? That’s about as low as my brow goes.
No, I get it. I was trying to be funny but couldn’t think of any actually good wordplay to joke about being lowbrow. Here, in apology for the quality of my vocabulary, I’ll offer a counter:
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are given a challenge: open a can without a can opener.
The engineer throws the can against a hard surface over and over again until it breaks.
The physicist does some calculations, puts pressure on a few points on the can, and finds satisfaction when the can promptly pops open.
The mathematician is later found staring at the can, muttering "assume the can is open … "
(I looked this up to make sure I remembered the details … It’s surprising how many methods the engineer and physicist are proclaimed to have used, while the punchline is always basically the same.)
By contradiction he proved the can cannot be open and is therefore closed. This is easy. This means the room they’re in is open (the compliment). If we close that up the can should open.